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Plural of grub

regular plural

The plural of grub is grubs.

Forms of grub

Singulargrub /ɡɹʌb/
Pluralgrubs /ɡɹʌbz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Grubs in a sentence

  • They are very active beneficial animals feeding on worms, soil grubs, etc., and thus harmless creatures.2016, T. W. Sanders, Garden Foes - Part I - Flower Foes, Read Books Limited. From the entry millepede
  • Two significant resources requiring special tools were tree grubs and wild honey or 'sugarbag'.1996, Records of the South Australian Museum, volumes 29-30, page 71. From the entry sugarbag
  • Letting your chooks clean the compost of curl grubs will make it fairly safe to put on the garden.2025 June 7, The Australian Weekend Magazine, Australia, page 45, column 1. From the entry chook
  • He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.1977, Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command. From the entry skep
  • In our account of the mason-wasps, we have referred to the destruction of their grubs by the interposition of the ruby-tails or cuckoo-wasps.1916, Edward Step, Marvels of Insect Life: A Popular Account of Structure and Habit, page 470. From the entry cuckoo wasp

Meaning of grub

  1. noun An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
  2. noun Food.
  3. noun A dirty person.

Full definition of grub

Questions about the plural of grub

What is the plural of grub?
The plural of grub is grubs.
Is grub countable?
Grub is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grub (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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